In a report to the housing, neighbourhoods and leisure committee, on Wednesday, July 5, the borough will reveal that although more people were issued with CPNs for fly-tipping as a result of the investigative work by officers, more households were taking notice of recycling rules, leading to fewer contaminated loads.

Fly-tipping and rubbish in the Meadway Precinct in Tilehurst (Image: UGC TMS)

And many more than expected were happy to pay to have their garden waste taken away, bringing in £700,000 for the borough.

In the first few weeks around 7.5 per cent of recycling bins per round were rejected because they were contaminated with non-recyclable items. That rejection rate has now fallen to 1.5 per cent.